Pocket safety-pin.



PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

B. ALMY. POCKET SAFETY PIN.

APPLICATION FILED 11110. 1a, 1903.-

BRADFORD ALMY, OF ITHAOA, NEW YORK.

POCKET SAFETY-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 5, 1906.

' ApplicationfiledDecember 18,1903. SerialNo.185,649.

To all who/2t it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BRADFORD ALMY, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Ithaca, in the county of Tompkins and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PocketSafety-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in pocket-protectors, and isespecially designed for use as a guard to prevent articles-such aspencils, pens, &c.from falling from pockets.

The object of the present invention is the provision of a device of thecharacter mentioned the construction of which is extremely simple,thereby permitting its manufacture at a small item of cost, and onewhich may be readily applied to and removed from a pocket without injuryto the cloth of the garment and also which while so applied will beconcealed from view.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing general object and others whichwill appear as the nature of the improvements is better understood, theinvention consists, substantially, in the novel construction,combination, and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in theappended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a face elevation of a protector embodyingthe herein-described improvements. Fig. 2 is a similar view illustratingthe invention as applied to a pocket, the latter being broken away tomore clearly illustrate the manner of application and the dotted linesindicating the position of the attaching members in the cloth of thegarment. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view, on an enlarged scale, ofthe retainer. Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view of one of the sockets0f the retainer, the web of the latter being broken away.

Referring in detail to the drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1,2, and 3, the letter A designates the attaching member of theherein-described protector, said member being in the nature of a pin andcomprising a strip of suitable elastic material bent into substantiallyelliptical form, so that its ends a. have a normal tendency to springapart, and in the formation of said member a loop d is provided at apoint midway the ends of In the application of the herein-describedprotector the ends of the attaching member are passed through the clothof the garment, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, a stitch 9 beingtaken around the lower end, and the extremities of said ends arepermitted to project beyond the surface of the cloth, said ends beingnotched, as at b. To hold the ends of the attaching member in theposition as applied, a retainer B is employed, said retainer comprisinga substantially triangular web B, to the outer edges of which is applieda pair of conical receiving-sleeves C, arranged at substantially rightangles to each other. Each of the sleeves C is provided at the exteriorof its mouth with an inwardly-extending lug c, which lugs engage thenotches b of the ends of the attaching member when said ends areinserted within said sleeves, and thereby lock said ends in the sleevesC.

The web B is also provided with a perforation or aperture f, to which isconnected the contiguous end of the binding member 6, and consequentlywhen the ends of the attaching member A are seated in the sleeve 0 saidends exert pressure upon the retainer B to force the latter away fromthe loop d, and this action tensions the binding member 6, through themedium of which tension any articles placed between the binding member 6and the concealed ends of the member A are firmly gripped and held, andthus displacement from the pocket to which the protector is applied isprevented. The binding member 6 may be a flexible device of anynaturesuch, for instance, as a coil-springwhich, as will be observed,when fastened at both ends may be pulled outwardly, so as to insert thedevice to be held in back of the spring, as indicated by the pencil h,shown as held in the pocket in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The invention is also applicable to the outside of a garmentindependently of the pocket, and when positioned in this manner willeffectually serve to hold pencils, pens, &c., to the person of thewearer.

I claim A pocket-protector comprising oppositelydisposed attachingmembers, each member having a pointed end, the pointed ends ofthemembers being at the same end of the pro member connecting theopposite ends of the tector, a retainer comprising a web havingprotector. 10 its edges turned over to form conical receiv- In testimonywhereof I a'HiX my signature ing-sockets, one for the pointed end ofeach in presence of tWo Witnesses.

member, each pointed end being removable BRADFORD ALMY. from its socket,lugs integral with the inte- Witnesses:

rior Wall of said sockets to engage in notches D. M. GILLESPIE,

in said pointed ends, and a flexible binding FREDIL CLARK.

